2018-05-15T01:29:51ZFinancial and Pre-Retirement Planning for
Law Enforcement Officershttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2299
Financial and Pre-Retirement Planning for
Law Enforcement Officers
LEMIT; Wukasch, Bryan
Contemporary law enforcement agencies across the country are constantly evaluating the need to better prepare their employees for the tremendous challenges of the future. Employees are often cited as a police executive’s most valuable assets. Unfortunately, police agencies have failed to recognize the importance of having financially stable officers working within their ranks. Police officers and their families consider the topic of money as a major stressor in their lives (Ellison, 2004). In addition, police officers have been historically unprepared for retirement years. This financial illiteracy lends itself to family conflict, officer fatigue, and disenfranchisement into retirement. Police departments across the country should implement financial and pre-retirement training into the core training programs.
Financially fit officers will see a reduction in the frequency of their previously necessary extra-duty jobs and overtime. In addition, police officers typically retire sooner than their civilian counterparts (Caudill & Peak, 2009a). Early intervention and financial planning for officers throughout their career can reduce the likelihood of insufficient income during retirement.
The continued evolution of police training demands that police executives consider the overall wellness and financial fitness of their officers. The benefits of a financially literate officer extend well beyond the officer’s own performance and well-being. These officers will enter their retirement on their own terms, committed to the agencies they served, and well prepared to enjoy the same communities they worked so tirelessly to protect.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZFormulating a Police Response to Suicidal Peoplehttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2303
Formulating a Police Response to Suicidal People
LEMIT; Bundick, Robert
Police respond on a regular basis to calls dealing with suicidal subjects. For responding officers, this call type is often a high stress incident and often has little information that can help with a definite solution. The importance of this paper is to help inform responding officers, supervisors, and administrators of issues to consider in the planning phase when dealing with a suicidal subject inside their own residence with no other people in danger. This information gathering process is important to the call and plays a part in a decision making process. Constitutional issues surround entering a private residence without consent or a warrant for a person who has not committed a criminal offense.
Law enforcement has numerous case law protections and exceptions to help with the protection of life when a person is inside their own residence, such as exigent circumstances. Other issues to consider are state created danger and the United States Supreme Court case Castle Rock v. Gonzales, which states police have no duty to protect (“Police Don’t Have Duty,” 2005). The Public-Duty Doctrine gives police immunity as a governmental agency, stating that duty to protect is owed to the public as a whole over any one individual (USLegal.com, n.d.).
The public expects police to respond and take action in every situation. Police should take informed, thought-out action based on known information utilizing every resource available. There is no specified wait time before taking the correct actions even if the actions taken are physical in nature.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZIntelligence-Led Policinghttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2298
Intelligence-Led Policing
LEMIT; Williams, Dwayne
Modern law enforcement agencies are tasked with reducing crime and the fear of crime. Law enforcement agencies have utilized several policing strategies over the years, such as a community and problem oriented policing, to reduce crime. These strategies are still being utilized today, but there has been a shift in policing strategies that includes intelligence-led policing, which is a management model and philosophy that affords police administrators the opportunity to utilize intelligence information to guide police resource deployments with a goal of being more efficient.
Law enforcement should utilize intelligence-led policing because it has the responsibility of controlling crime by priority setting and strategic planning. The objective of this research is to explore the intelligence-led policing strategy and methods to assist the decision making of police leaders involved in controlling crime. This paper explores the use of intelligence-led policing as a strategic planning tool in the fight against organized crime that crosses jurisdictional boundaries. It argues that through the implementation of an intelligence-led policing model, law enforcement agencies can fully take advantage of the availability of tools, such as crime mapping resources. To do this, crimes analysts map and analyze crime incident patterns to identify crime hot spots, along with other trends and patterns, so police administrators can make informed decisions when deploying resources and disrupt criminal activities. The intelligence-led policing strategy also encourages targeting offenders, utilizing informants, and sharing of criminal intelligence amongst law enforcement agencies of partner agencies through email investigator groups and monthly meetings, which will have a significant impact on crime reductions.
2017-01-01T00:00:00ZCreation of a Social Media Policy for Law Enforcement Agencieshttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/2301
Creation of a Social Media Policy for Law Enforcement Agencies
LEMIT; Bettis, James
During the last two decades, technology advancements have had an impact on how law enforcement organizations operate. One of these technological advancements has been the evolution of the internet and the ability to communicate electronically. Twenty years ago, sitting at a computer, typing an email, and having it sent to the recipient almost instantly was a new and novel idea. Now a person can type their thoughts, feelings, and ideas from their phone or other portable device from virtually anywhere at any time. This is accomplished through social media. The use of social has provided new challenges and opportunities law enforcement agencies. In order to mitigate the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities, agencies will need to create a social media policy. This policy will need to address how the agency is represented on social media. This includes who will be allowed to utilize social media on the agency’s behalf as well as how it will be used for investigative and emergency purposes. The policy will also need to address employees’ rights as they pertain to social media use, both on and off-duty.
2017-01-01T00:00:00Z